Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance

Develop your voice. Refine your artistry. Reimagine what dance can be.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance is a rigorous, 124-credit program designed to prepare dancers and choreographers for professional careers, graduate study, or allied fields. The BFA emphasizes both performance and choreographic development, empowering students to cultivate their distinctive artistic identities.

Students train across a range of interdisciplinary practices while building strong technical skill, critical inquiry, and creative fluency. Areas of study include:

  • Movement Practice in three areas of focus: Contemporary African and African Diasporic Dance, Contemporary Dance, and Contemporary Ballet
  • Creative practice, dance composition, and choreographic research
  • Histories and theories of dance
  • Interdisciplinary research

Electives and transdisciplinary opportunities encourage close collaboration with faculty and expand each student’s capacity to engage dance as a cultural, intellectual and socially responsive art form.

Graduates of the program emerge as innovative, adaptable artists equipped to shape the future of dance.

See full details in the UF Undergraduate Catalog.

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